past 20 years, CPU performance has doubled about every 18 months. The PowerPC

will stay close to this pace for the next 10 years--a nearly 100-fold improvement in that

time. The storage capacities of hard drives will continue to expand, they are currently

growing at a rate of about 60 percent per year. Today, Intel's Pentium II has 7.5 million

transistors. If the trend continues, Intel processors should contain 50 million to 100 million

transistors in the first decade of the next century. In 5 years, computers will have 16 times

the memory capacity they do now. "One big challenge is the time for the processor to acc-

ess the memory. [One solution is that] the processor might be on the same chip as memo-

ry. Every time you buy memory, you get a processor."

Actual voice input will become a reality, but it may not be widely employed in offices

because of privacy and environmental issues. According to Gates. He predicts that within

ten years, "every computer will have speech and linguistics built into it. Instead of typing

on the internet, such as downloads and plug-ins can be priced at fees of $1 or $2. This will

nection (sans surgery) maybe possible in the next 10 years.

start sounding like Jim Carry. As machines and computers become more intelligent, they

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